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Category Archives: Adam Lent
Apr 16 2013
Rapid technological change is producing something analogous to a Marxist revolution
Leave a commentTweet Adam Lent argues that the social significance of recent technological innovations has yet to be fully recognised. Marxist claims about workers seizing the means of production are finding oblique realisation in contemporary society, with digital technology conferring upon individuals the … Continue reading
Posted by: April 16, 2013
Tagged with: design, Innovation, manufacture, marxism
Mar 25 2013
We need to discover something akin to the ‘spirit of 45′ if we are to replace our ‘failure state’ with a ‘success state’
Leave a commentTweet In response to Ken Loach’s new film Spirit of ’45, Adam Lent makes the case that the popular narrative of social change expressed in the film is mistaken. The social state established by the postwar Labour government of 1945 is … Continue reading
Posted by: March 25, 2013
Tagged with: social state, spirit of 45, welfare state
Mar 22 2013
Forget budgets – economic redemption can only comes from ourselves now
Leave a commentTweet In the last of our Budget 2013 coverage, Adam Lent argues that much of the contemporary political discourse about economic policy has failed to grasp the limited agency of the state in the contemporary world. Instead of asking what, if … Continue reading
Posted by: March 22, 2013
Tagged with: budget2013, civic activism, civil society, networks, state
Feb 12 2013
Select Committees are becoming the ugly face of Parliament: it’s time to rein them in
10 CommentsTweet Adam Lent argues that Select Committees are increasingly characterised by an extremely aggressive style of questioning, becoming ‘public courts’ where individuals are tried on the strength of their performance rather than on the evidence. This has gone hand-in-hand with a … Continue reading
Posted by: February 12, 2013
Tagged with: accountability, select committees
